Hey guys,

Jeffrey MacKie=Mason is giving a STIET talk on 3/27 that might interest everybody. It covers incentives and user-contributed content. Here's the details, from a "This Week at SI" email:

STIET Seminar:
> "Getting the Good Stuff In, Keeping the Bad Stuff Out:
> Incentives and User-Contributed Content"
> Jeff MacKie-Mason
> 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
> Thursday, March 27, 2008
> 313 State Hall, Wayne State (videocast)
> Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall (in person)
>
> Jeff MacKie-Mason, the Arthur W. Burks Professor of
> Information and Computer Science and Professor of Economics
> and Public Policy, will present. MacKie-Mason is well known
> for his pioneering work on the economics of the Internet. He
> also works on the economics of other information technologies
> and of competition in high-technology markets.
> His recent work focuses on the economics of information
> content and usage, including projects on spam reduction,
> peer-to-peer resource sharing, and incentives to increase
> information security. He was the research director for the
> first large-scale field experiment on electronic commerce for
> electronic access to scholarly journals. The seminar is open to all.

From Sean's blog: 

http://communitygrouptherapy.com/2008/01/14/not-so-much-lovin-it/

Hilarious!

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